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Context: Russia’s new nuclear missile Sarmat, capable of striking ‘anywhere in the world’.
About RS-28 Sarmat (NATO name Satan-II):
- It is reported to be able to carry ten or more warheads and decoys and has the capability of firing over either of the earth’s poles with a range of 11,000 to 18,000 km.
- It is expected to pose a significant challenge to the ground-and-satellite-based radar tracking systems of the western powers, particularly the USA.
- The ten warheads are Multiple Independently-Targetable Re-entry Vehicles and each has a blast yield of .75 MT.
- The Sarmat will also be the first Russian missile which can carry smaller hypersonic boost-glide vehicles.
- These are manoeuvrable and hard to intercept.
- It has upgraded electronic counter measures, guidance systems and alternative warhead carrying capacity makes the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM more lethal than the R-36M Voyevoda ICBMs (NATO name Satan) currently in service in Russia.
- Height and weight of Sarmat ICBM is the same as in the older one, it has more speed and high throw weight.
- Sarmat is a liquid fuelled missile as compared to US ICBMs which have moved on to solid fuel systems.
- Sarmat is named after nomadic tribes that roamed the steppes of present-day Southern Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the early medieval period.
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-russia-ukraine-war-nuclear-missile-sarmat-7880021/
